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Solution If you need to backup a network-mapped drive on Windows (it will only work in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003), you must enter your Windows domain, username and password into the [Network Resources Authentication for Windows] section as shown below. It is required because scheduled backups will always run under the context of windows LocalSystem account (which does not have the privilege required to access network resources) by default. BackupRight needs to collect your Windows username, password and domain name to authenticate itself to the Windows Domain Controller to acquire the required access privileges to the network files which are to be backed up. If you don’t supply a username and password, BackupRight will have problem accessing network resources in its scheduled backup Jobs.

If you need to backup network mapped drive in scheduled backup, please do this:
i. Select the backup set from the left panel and press the [Properties] button.
ii. Enter your Windows domain, username and password into the dialog box.
iii. Press the [Save Setting] button on the toolbar.

The steps above apply only to computers running in a Windows domain. If you don’t have a windows domain within your network and you are using a workgroup or using a Linux server instead, please use the “net use” command to authenticate the running backup process against the computer hosting the mapped drive. Otherwise, you will get “Access Denied” error from the backup report.

For example, if you want to backup \\SERVER\SHARE that is located on a Linux server (or another computer in a windows workgroup) and you are getting "Network drive is not accessible" error message, please try adding the following command as a [Pre-backup command]

net use \\SERVER\SHARE [PASSWORD] /USER:[DOMAIN | MACHINE_NAME]\[USERNAME]

E.g.
C:\> net use \\Netware\Data password /USER:peter
C:\> net use \\WorkgroupComputer1\Data password /USER:WorkgroupComputer1\peter

This will authenticate the current process with the Linux server (or another computer in a windows workgroup).

Backup will then be allowed to run correctly.

For further information regarding the net use command please refer to this Microsoft Knowledgebase Article: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/net_use.mspx?mfr=true

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31 Aug 2006 11:29 AM

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